Baloney (Noun)
Meaning
Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Usages
Examples
- The professor's lecture was full of baloney about the symbolism of the novel, and most of the students tuned out.
- The self-help book was just a bunch of baloney, filled with clichés and vague promises of success.
- The politician's speech was so full of baloney that it was hard to take anything he said seriously.
- The art critic's review of the exhibit was a load of baloney, using words like "transcendent" and "subversive" to describe what was essentially just a bunch of pretty pictures.
- The academic's paper was a bunch of baloney, using overly complex language to say something that could have been expressed much more simply.